I think you'll agree, best
practices and "What Matters Most" are relative to what YOUR priorities are.

Lone Eagle Consulting is dedicated to making a difference through
online education. Most of what you'll find here was created without payment and
it is all offered without restriction. Lone Eagle's reputation over the last 25 years has
been honorable and productive as the update
(above) demonstrates. Lone Eagle has created hundreds of
instructional resources. The Lone Eagle Web site has a custom
Google Search engine. http://lone-eagles.comEmail: frank@lone-eagles.com
Inquiries Welcome: PH: 406
683 6270

Honor comes from making a
positive difference in the lives of others. Lone Eagle has created exciting
new ways to engage
Native American and Alaskan Native youth in helping their communities and
learning to make the living they want, living wherever they want.

Fall 2011, Three New Online Courses dedicated to showcasing the "Promise of Broadband" for
creating sustainable Alaskan Native Villages, cultures, families, and
entrepreneurs of all ages!
Offered by the Alaska Staff Development Network and Alaska Pacific University!

Recommending the Office of Broadband Best Practices for Sustainable Families

BEST
PRACTICES FOR BROADBAND IN INDIAN COUNTRY:

1. Preserve the wisdom and
stories of your elders via multimedia while they are still with us. How?
Ask
the youth to use their digital skills. One easy way is Flipalbums: A tutorial:
http://lone-eagles.com/flipalbumtutorial.htm

3. The 21st Century Learn,
Earn, and Serve Academy - for all those "at-risk"
http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm -
All lessons and media are open to the public.
Resources include a blog, a wiki, and
a youtube channel. We are using Google Groups for the private
interaction for the class while showcasing the best integrated Google tools so
youth can teach the course to others, and/or create their own Instructional
Entrepreneurship businesses.

The BIG opportunity is to identify
broadband training best practices so Alaskan Native villages and all Native
communities, with broadband can be revitalized. Currently, even those villages
with BB are suffering serious out-migration. This Lone Eagle Train-the-trainers
program was developed for Alaskan Native youth on state-of-the-art broadband
entrepreneurship. By learning these social media tools
you and yours can reach more tribal members online that through any of your
other methods, at less cost, and in the short term.The
lessons are online without restriction, free to all.

Think About Your First
Digital Generation, the Seventh Generation - They Are Ready to Lead.

Now that anyone, anywhere, anytime can share resources and mentor others
online, anywhere, anytime, it would be common sense to all work together to
share that new knowledge which can best support the sustainability of Native
cultures, communities, families, and individuals, worldwide. Skills and wisdom
can be offered online for free, or as appropriate, as for-profit online
courses, webinars, oral histories, and other exciting ways of teaching. It is
of immediate and vital importance to use multimedia to capture the stories and
wisdom of elders to share with all future generation. Free software and
training is available – and youth as the first digital generation can easily
learn how to do this, and much more.

Anyone with access to an Internet connection can learn how they can do this,
too.

This site has created the opportunity to gather and share the best bottom-up
innovations from those who were among the first to innovate with local
capacity-building using the Internet. If we all share what we know works best,
we will all have access to all our knowledge.

Wisdom can be shared without losing it, and looking at current world
conditions,
we need to share as much Native American wisdom as possible.

If we all share what we know,
we'll all have access to all our wisdom.

Everyone can become an
online teacher. The world needs your voice!

Everyone
both learner and teacher, consumer and producer, all the time.

Start Here:

A
Tribal Leaders Leadership Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/empowerment.htm
Native Youth Digital Indianpreneurship
Creating a Cultural Shift Toward Sustainable Sovereignty:
http://lone-eagles.com/indianpreneurship.htm
AIHEC
Tribal College
Recommendationsfor Innovative Community Education Programs
http://lone-eagles.com/aihec.htm
For Individuals
seeking to understand Broadband Entrepreneurship: I created a first online
course for rural adults who have never taken an online course "A Beginner's Guide to Profiting from the Internet."
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htmAlaskan Native Version:
http://lone-eagles.com/akecom.htm With copious online mentoring and
encouragement it is intended as a primarily self-directed hands-on exploration
of many of the best existing resources by category. It is five years old. An
update would include short videos, podcasts, and screencast presentations of
specific web resources. I've been learning a lot of the newer social media
distance learning techniques and am eager to put them to good use.

Host a
Web-Raising workshop
where all attendees create free ecommerce web pages were created in under 45
minutes? Tutorial at
http://lone-eagles.com/tutorial.htm Windows Live now offers free
ecommerce web sites.

Create
cultural flipalbums
with narrated digital photos of print photos from family scrapbooks, the
tutorial at
http://lone-eagles.com/flipalbumtutorial.htm Very popular and fun to
do. More options are in my update link below, including my latest online
graduate course for educators on social media basics.

A two-day youth workshop for the Coeur d'Alene tribe as documented at
http://lone-eagles.com/workshop.htm Youth did web pages, flipalbums,
editing videos created with web cams, and much more. Note - youth learn ten
times faster than adults so your workshop needs to be tailored to the
audience.

A 200 page rural
leadership guide was also created and printed: Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies:
http://lone-eagles.com/eguide.htm
For State and Tribal Communities of Communities:
- Awareness Raising: A simple start to a
statewide broadband awareness program was recently proposed to both Alaskan
and Montanan leaders
http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-innovations.htm The core idea is to
offer a free online course with three tracks - simple video overviews for
adult leaders, classroom ready entrepreneurship curriculum for educators, and
hands-on advanced self-directed lessons for youth.
http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-innovations.htm

Native
American Jobs.com In
Wolfpoint, Montana, Mr. Trinder
created
www.nativeamericanjobs.com four years ago, he now averages $4000/month.

Alfalfa as Bunnyfood:
SunRoadsFarmory.com In Cutbank, Montana, Ron Ridesatthedoor sells alfalfa as bunny food
www.sunroadsfarmory.com to supplement his farm income. He was elected
commissioner of Glacier county and created his own wireless Internet business,
too.

The level of benefits to tribal members for the promise of broadband (fast
Internet) will depend on the quality of training and support they receive.
Since 1998, Lone Eagle Consulting has gathered and created extensive
resources, online training, grant templates and more, all offered online
without restriction. Resources listed by topic are at
http://lone-eagles.com/future-proofing.htm and
http://lone-eagles.com

Did you know that most communities with broadband access have never been shown
what's possible for self-directed learning, home-based self-employment, and
establishing a global voice expressing Native culture through multi-media?
The trends are that new web-based tools for creating your own online content,
collaborating with others, and even making a living from anywhere, are
becoming more and more powerful and are often free.

Despite the jump in oil and food prices, real money can be saved by shopping
online, making free phonecalls online, and many other common sense
applications. One simple solution is to share what's working best across many
tribal communities and to celebrate these bottom-up innovations as they
emerge. Youth, our first digital generation, are way ahead of most adults, and
can be invaluable helping the rest of us benefit from their digital skills and
abilities. But, they need the wisdom of their elders to use these powerful new
tools appropriately.

This clearinghouse is currently unfunded and is provided through the social
entrepreneurship of Lone Eagle Consulting. We welcome partners, contributors,
and funding from those who recognize the need for creating and sharing these
kinds of training resources.

The letter to
Senator Tester expands on these
common sense themes - with emphasis on rural and Native American Internet
training. http://lone-eagles.com/tester.htm

Quote: “It
will be what Native Americans learn to actually DO with broadband that will
determine
their level of global competitiveness and benefits.”

Health I.T, Rural Broadband, and Common Sense
http://lone-eagles.com/natoahealthodasz.pdf
Community Wellness and sustainable rural families and broadband
entrepreneurship need to be integrated as "smart" community education
programs. Immaculate Integration can lower costs and dramatically improve
E-government services. Combining connectivity and caring with common sense to
produce the authenticity of widespread citizen engagement is where the promise
of broadband best meets specific rural needs.

First
Nations ICT Summit, Feb. 18-22, 2009 in Vancouver BC www.ictsummit.ca
The First Nations Technology Council site is
www.fntc.info and is rich
with resources. (BC First Nations have $30 million for BB and "capacity
building/training" which they are now plannig to define and operationalize.
Ontario's KNET has $27 million for arctic satellite connectivity to remote
villages.Lone Eagle Presentation Title and DescriptionThe History and Future of Grassroots ICT Socio-economic Capacity BuildingPresident Obama's expertise with social media as demonstrated during his
campaign will now be applied toward community service, civic participation,
community education, and stimulating innovation at all levels in America.
Rural broadband training innovations toward teaching global citizenship,
global service learning, and opportunities for educating youth to create
micromultinationals have already begun. This session will review lessons
learned from the history of U.S. grassroots organizations for community
technology centers, community networks and will address the latest trends in
use of social media for measurable socio-economic capacity-building. Lone
Eagle's published responses to challenges as to whether rural broadband can
produce jobs: The Rural Broadband Challenge: Use It - E-commerce successes
in rural Montana
http://matr.net/article-32886.htmlHealth I.T, Rural Broadband, and
Common Sense
http://lone-eagles.com/natoahealthodasz.pdf Lone Eagle 2009 Update
http://lone-eagles.com/update2009.htm

21st Century Citizen and Community Wellness Broadband Best
Practiceshttp://lone-eagles.com/hit.htm This document is my input for Senator
Baucus on health care reform and Health information technology
policy - as
related to wellness broadband applications.The links to the short articles on
govt. use of social media and the longer Razorfish report on consumer social
media indicate major opportunities for innovation, particularly with citizen
service learning engagement.
Health Information Technology and Community Wellness Broadband Applications
http://lone-eagles.com/healthinfotech.htm